An acrimonious divorce in which the warring parties were ordered to sell an art collection including works by Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko after being unable to agree its worth, has resulted in the most valuable auction ever held by one of the world’s leading art houses.
More than $676m(£503m) was paid for the Macklowe Collection, amassed over more than half a century by the real estate magnate Harry Macklowe and Linda Macklowe, an honorary trustee of New York’s Metropolitan
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